EMYSystem Text Only Species Page: Graptemys oculifera
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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Emydidae (Pond Turtles)
subfamily.......Deirochelyinae ()
genus...............Graptemys (Map Turtles)
species..............Graptemys oculifera (Ringed Map Turtle)
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- Original Description
- Baur 1890 : 262
- Syntypes
- (2 specimens) USNM 15511 (cited as "holotype" by Cochran 1961:233); MCZ 6430 (cited as "holotype" by Barbour and Loveridge 1929:303 and as "cotype" by Carr 1952:201); Iverson 1986b:87 and King and Burke 1989:54 erroneously recorded USNM 8808 as syntypical (see syntypes of Graptemys pulchra).
- Type Locality
- "Mandeville, [St. Tammany Parish] L[ouisian]a" [USA]
- Original name
- Malacoclemmys oculifera
- Common Name
- Ringed Map Turtle
- Distribution
- Pearl River drainage of Louisiana and Mississippi, USA
- Comments
- Reviewed by Cagle (1953b), McCoy and Vogt (1988), and Kofron (1991).
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